Sweet Echo Dell (Henry Clay Work Poems)
"Three there were that left my cot;Two are here, and one is not;Why does Willie linger? Say, can you tell?""He ...
"Three there were that left my cot;Two are here, and one is not;Why does Willie linger? Say, can you tell?""He ...
Come to me, Sunbeam! I'm dyingUncared for, distress'd and alone.Even now the pale angel with icy hand seizesThe heart that ...
Saturday night! Saturday night!The hope that lingered has taken to flight;From morning till evening, the weary week through,In vain has ...
"Come, rest with me now, my silver horn!My melodious joy, my silver horn!These many long years my constant friend,Together let ...
Baby girl, my beauty! now hush while I sing.Birdies in the treetops have folded each wing.Pussy in the corner lies ...
Say, darkeys, hab you seen de massa,Wid de muffstash on his face,Go long de road some time dis mornin',Like he ...
Come, happy people! Oh come let us tellThe story of Washington and Lincoln!History's pages can never excelThe story of Washington ...
On the sunset borders of the mountains I stray,Of a dear home dreaming 'yond the snow peaks far away,While the ...
Brother, come back! come back!Dear brother, what can be the charm,That holds you so strong — that keeps you so ...
When the shadows take their nightly places,When departing light is faint and pale,Then in my chamber gather phantom faces,Gazing thro' ...
Riding in the Park, or down town shoppingAt the Matinee, or singing in the choirEverywhere a dazzling blaze of beautyBlinds ...
Sister! Sister! don't you rememberThe days when we were young?The long, long days, with a light and a shadeLike the ...
Don't you see de black cloudsRisin' ober yonder,Whar de Massa's old plantation am?Neber you be frightened,Dem is only darkies,Come to ...
Proudly foats the ocean steamer,—Throngs aboard and on the pier;With orders, oaths, and farewells mingled,What a medley greats the ear!Off ...
Childish footsteps, just behind her,Softly patter on the green.Back she glances; tears may blind her,But no little one is seen.Blanched, ...
Say not, O say not, we are strangers,By freak chance together brought;Remind me not of lurking dangersIn wreaths of friendship ...
When our boys come home in triumph, brother,With the laurels they shall gain;When we go to give them welcome, brother,We ...
The sun that sank just now beyond those calm watersShines not for me;The sun that will to-morrow gild yonder mountainI ...
The morning was fearful at sea—The voyagers weary and pale;Their steamer a wreck, from keel to deck,Before an Autumnal gale.Old ...
"What shall we do, as years go by,And Peace remains a stranger —With Richmond yet in rebel hands,And Washington in ...
On a pebly shore, where forevermoreGently creeps a music laden wave —In the meadows green, which beyond are seen,Camps a ...
Where the foremost flag was flying,Pierce'd by many a shot and shell,Where the bravest men were dying,There our gallant captain ...
When the daylight fades on the tented field,And the campfire cheerfully burns,Then the Soldier's thought, like a carrier dove,To his ...
High is the belfry the old sexton stands,Grasping the rope with his thin bony hands;Fix'd is his gaze, as by ...
Last night, mother, he told me so,As we walked by the pebbly stream;And I wake so happy—so wild with joy,It ...
'Tis noon of night; the sable clouds,Hang weeping in the sky;Alone I sit, where fancies flitLike spectral shadows by.Me thinks ...
Who shall rule this American Nation?Say, boys, say!Who shall sit in the loftiest station?Say, boys, say!Shall the men who trampled ...
Up from the poor man's cottage—Forth from the mansion door;Sweeping across the waters,And echoing 'long the shore;Caught by the morning ...
On a stormy night in winter,When the winds blew cold and wet,I heard some strains of musicThat I never can ...
'Tis finished! 'tis ended!The dread and awful task is done;Tho' wounded and bleeding,'tis ours to sing the vict'ry won,Our nation ...
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